Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English poet, illustrator, painter and translator

Date of Birth: 12-May-1828

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1882

Profession: poet, translator, illustrator, painter

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (), was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family.
He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.
His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. Rossetti's art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism.
His early poetry was influenced by John Keats.
His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence, The House of Life.
Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work.
He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, spanning from The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) and Astarte Syriaca (1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by the celebrated poet Christina Rossetti, his sister. Rossetti's personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses Elizabeth Siddal (whom he married), Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris.



Description	British painter and sculptor
Date of birth/death	23 February 1817	1 June 1904
Location of birth/death	London	Limnerslease bei Compton (Surrey)
Work location	London, Florence, Paris, Konstantinopel
Authority control	: Q183245 VIAF: 10095477 ISNI: 0000 0000 8076 3251 ULAN: 500026988 LCCN: n50043705 NLA: 35594706 WorldCat